Export Restrictions on Critical Minerals: What Zimbabwe’s Recent Ban Tells Us
African countries have an opportunity with critical minerals to negotiate better investment terms and promote local industrialisation. However, poorly designed ...
African countries have an opportunity with critical minerals to negotiate better investment terms and promote local industrialisation. However, poorly designed ...
The recent war in Iran has once again raised issues about energy access and sovereignty. For African countries, it presents ...
The recent AU Summit highlighted the centrality of African regional integration, the AfCFTA, industrialisation, local value, and integrated climate and ...
Can a country lawfully walk back a central tenet of its mitigation policy in its NDC under the Paris Agreement? ...
The Mining Indaba laid bare a stark choice – continue as a pit-to-port extractive frontier, or deploy the continent’s US$1trillion ...
The Mining Indaba has exposed simmering tensions between South Africa and the DRC over the latter’s recent deals with the ...
Kenya has been well known for its pro carbon market stance and support for high integrity credits. So it came ...
BRICS has the capacity to fundamentally shift global climate governance, yet internal diversity and geopolitical entanglements constrain its leadership. Its ...
We spoke with Ghana’s Nana Dr. Antwi-Boasiako Amoah, the new Chair of the African Group of Negotiators (AGN) about the ...
The African Union (AU) and European Union (EU) missed the opportunity that their joint summit in Luanda, Angola presented to ...
While the latest statement of intent to withdraw from the UNFCCC may herald an exit from the climate treaty regime, ...
2025 was a whirlwind year for Africa’s climate agenda, with both internal and external events shaping the continent’s positions and ...
The Climate Action Agenda is emerging as another currency in the UNFCCC COPs: a currency that catalyses momentum for implementation ...
Talks underpinning COP30’s Gender Action Plan reveal the fragility of progress in recognising the systems of oppression that affect women, ...
The Just Transition Mechanism could connect “transitions out” with “transitions in”, linking decarbonisation with Africa’s diversification needs and supporting critical ...
This year’s COP30 talks proffered the same tensions, particularly around finance, increased ambition, burden shifting, and how to agree to ...
Tropical forests were front and centre at COP30, with the launch of two initiatives dedicated to forest conservation. For Africa’s ...
Grand ambitions and financial pledges of COP30 The curtains came down on the Brazilian city of Belém on Saturday once ...